Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano's season-saving huddle at 39,000 feet ignited his sputtering team and the season's wildfire, Wildcat craze. The impetus for Sparano's eureka moment? A desire to get running backs Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams on the field at the same time.

Jerry Pate moved into position for his second straight Champions Tour victory, shooting a 5-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Scott Hoch in the Allianz Championship. Pate, the Turtle Bay Championship winner two weeks ago in Hawaii, had an 11-under 133 total on The Old Course at Broken Sound.

Hamas militants have enlisted a figure bearing a strong resemblance to Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic domination and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience children.

Keisha Jackson and husband Jonathan Denman had plans to marry Monday in New Jersey, but were flooded out of their apartment by the nor'easter and evacuated to the church, where the pastor married them.

Amtrak introduced new high-speed rail service this week, amid little fanfare, between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa. But actual development of high-speed routes elsewhere has slowed to a crawl or gone completely dormant.

Arron Oberholser put himself in position to try to add the biggest Canadian title of them all to his Ontario trophy collection. The 31-year-old Californian, already a three-time winner in the province, shot a 2-under 68 in windy conditions Friday in the Canadian Open for a share of the second-round lead with Jesper Parnevik, Camilo Villegas and Jonathan Byrd.

Higher gasoline costs and steeper rates at hotels and motels may have some families worried that they won't be able to take a vacation trip this year. But experts say there are affordable alternatives and many of them are close to home.

For the Seton Hall Law School students who'd watched the Manhattan skyline from the windows of their school library as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks unfolded, the chance to take a seminar on terrorism and civil liberties was too good to pass up.